AT 6ft 6ins tall, 15-year-old Gregory Davis can almost claim to have a bird's eye view of the world - and he is still growing!

But keeping up with the strapping lad is proving hard work for mum Julieanne, who says shopping for Greg is a nightmare.

'There's no such thing as a quick shopping trip when it comes to buying clothes for Greg,' said Julieanne. 'I have to look everywhere.'

'Kids are getting bigger all the time. I know I mustn't be the only mum with a big tall son who has found that most shops just don't cater for them.

'It's Greg's 16th birthday next month, it would be lovely to be able to buy him some nice clothes, but I am running out of ideas for places to buy them.'

Julieanne, of Adam Avenue, Great Sutton, says that no sooner has she found a long enough pair of trousers for Greg, then he grows out of them.

And to top it all off, this year the schoolboy grew out of his bed and Julieanne had to invest in a double for him.

'It's still too short for him, but at least now he can lie across it,' said Julieanne. 'I bought him a pair of jeans recently, but I had to pay £90.

'Everybody knows that young lads want to mess around, they get clothes dirty. I don't want to pay £90 every time my teenage son rips his jeans.'

At the moment Greg, a keen basketball player and a Whitby High School pupil, takes a size 12 shoe and finding him trainers is not a big problem, but Julieanne is realistic and fully expects her son's feet to grow even bigger.

She says her son can grow at an alarming rate. During the summer of last year, he shot up by three-and-a-half inches.

She said: 'I just wish there were more places that catered for people like Greg.

'There are a few ranges that do bigger clothes, but they tend to be for older men and not very fashionable.

'It's difficult to find big clothes cool enough for a 15-year-old. It's difficult enough being a teenager, the last thing I would want to do is make Greg walk around in embarrassing clothes.'

Julieanne continued: 'Being as tall as Greg, you tend to stick out like a sore thumb, but he doesn't mind. He is really confident and is a hit with the ladies.

'His best friend is quite a small lad and it does look funny, seeing them together. Greg says that when he first meets people his own age, they just gasp and tell him they have never seen anybody as tall before. He doesn't mind that.'

Julieanne used to fear Greg might suffer from a pituitary disease which many giants suffer from, but thankfully Greg's phenomenal growth is natural.

Greg, who was an 8lb 8oz baby, is just part of a long-line of tall people in his family. At 6ft 1ins, Julieanne herself is taller than most women.

Julieanne, 38, says that she stopped growing when she was 12, and doctors were so baffled by her height they were considering carrying out surgery.

'They wanted to cut out pieces of my thigh bone. It sounded like a horrible operation.'

Greg's brother, 16-year-old Ashleigh is a whopping 6ft 4ins. and 10-year-old Ryan is heading the same way in the height stakes.

'It makes you wonder what I have been feeding them doesn't it,' joked Julieanne. 'But seriously, it is in the genes. My mother was 5ft 10ins and my sisters are tall.

'My great-grandfather was well known for being a big tall man 100 years ago.

'There were pictures of him in the newspapers because he could carry a beer barrel under each arm!'

Basketball star's top tips for shopping

CHESTER Jets player Billy Singleton revealed some of his shopping secrets to help mums with 'big kids'.

The 6ft 9ins star admits it's easier to shop in his home country America if you are tall, but says there are a few places to go in and around Chester.

'I don't want to tell all the big kids where to buy sneakers, there won't be any left for me,' joked Billy, who takes a size 15 shoe.

'Just kidding. I find the best place for training shoes is Nike at the Cheshire Oaks outlet village. There is also High and Mighty in Chester. They mainly do dress clothes, but I am sure the kids can find one or two things in there.

'It is really quite difficult to buy clothes if you are big in England. I mostly leave my shopping until I go back to the States and stock up.

'But if I do want to do some serious shopping when I am in Britain, then I use the Internet - www.eastbay.com is the best website.

'You can get sports gear and trendy clothes and it is not that expensive.'

Billy says by the time that he was 15 he had already topped 6ft after growing three inches in one year!